Long Sunlit Poems
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Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
sunlit, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
A CRYSTALLINE COLLAGE
A.COUPLETS
IN SIGHT'S EYE
Ideas with nowhere to hide
An eureka moment inside
Indistinct ,then becoming clear
Words & pictures coming near-
A passage of light to my soul,
Inspiration to make me whole.
LOVE'S STORY
Can a letter break a heart
Like the look...
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Categories:
sunlit, appreciation,
Form:
Crystalline
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
sunlit, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
sunlit, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Native American Translations
Native American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
sunlit, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Salat Days
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
sunlit, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Rumi Translation: the Field
The Field
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lazes in such lush grass
the world is too...
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Categories:
sunlit, earth, green, islamic, rights, soulmate, sound, words,
Form:
Epigram
Rumi Translation: Birdsong
Birdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!
I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
sunlit, bird, music, poetry, poets, song, universe, writing,
Form:
Verse
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
sunlit, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Song of Amergin: Translation
The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
sunlit, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
sunlit, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh My Numb Cranium
Why did He let me break?
Was it for a future's sake?
How did you all get here?
Are we all lost in epic fear?
Keep pressing on, my dusked Dawn
We welcome the sun, that's what we look upon
Do...
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Categories:
sunlit, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
sunlit, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...
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Categories:
sunlit, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Addicted To the Appeal
Verse 1: I'm loving every second of our time together
I'm liking the fact that you aren't a memory, all ablur
I adore you and everything about you
We were meant to be...you came to me out of...
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Categories:
sunlit, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, grief,
Form:
Lyric
Daylight Is Wasting Away
You see the pain in my eyes
And you erase the cruel lies
I see the pain in your eyes
Tell me something promising as time flies
Don't say your goodbyes
I say hello to our temporary highs
Pre-chorus: Do...
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Categories:
sunlit, best friend, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Lyric
Found and Safe
Close your eyes
Explicit shame sheds rage in my eyes
I’ll be alright in the morning light and the night’s so bright
Open up your eyes
Sharpen me like your pensive pencil……
Begin with me, thinking I’m not thin
Paper thin,...
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Categories:
sunlit, words,
Form:
Free verse
Inception: Trade Me Prosperity - Collab With Mikey Part 4
Blossoming
Effulgent sun proffers love
Clambering…
My brain makes me wonder if you remember the times shared
Back to the blessed times, I recall that you would listened, be worried about me, and, at the time,...
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Categories:
sunlit, emotions, words,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving sooo Soon
I guess I’m sorry I was leaving so soon
It came out of the blue,
It came out of the blue moon…blue moon…
I couldn’t find my left shoe
I could have been here
For a little while, while,...
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Categories:
sunlit, angst, devotion, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
I Promise
I promise…I promise I won’t desert you
This hardship you’re facing at the moment is temporary
Tonight…tonight, I will show you love so true
By wiping your tears of sorrow and showing you tomorrow happily
I wake up to...
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Categories:
sunlit, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"
Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...
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Categories:
sunlit, america, appreciation, art, bird, books, dream, history,
Form:
Blank verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of free will and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is.. is over in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
sunlit, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
The Inception: God Is Alwayz Good -Part 2-
Was I ever handsome in God’s eyes? When will I take…take…
When will I take flight?
I’m counting the days to see you fly so gracefully…in the aqua-blue sky
I can’t wait to see you take wing and...
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Categories:
sunlit, deep, faith, freedom, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Desert Rose
I was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.
I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...
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Categories:
sunlit, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration, lost, purple, rose,
Form:
Couplet
This Is No Fable
I was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon,
Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom.
The view from the many windows, was gold sunshiny delight,
With blossoms and rich greenery, and many birds...
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Categories:
sunlit, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower, imagery, life, tree,
Form:
Couplet